#endeavour

I think for most people it's hard to understand what it is about swimming - I mean it's such a solo endeavour. ↗

— Stephanie Rice

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In the following pages I have endeavoured to describe all that appeared to me most important and interesting among the events and the scenes that came under my notice during my sojourn in the interior of Africa. ↗

— John H. Speke

#among #appeared #came #describe #during

And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to tell just the story of the adventure itself. ↗

— Joshua Slocum

#adventure #deductions #detailed #endeavoured #friends

For isn't the artist by nature a revolutionary? ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#nature

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#cleanliness #endeavour #extravagance #genius #hard

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#get #life #more #out #polygamy

We ought as much as we can to endeavour the Perfecting of our Beings, and that we be as happy as possibly we may. ↗

— Mary Astell

#endeavour #happy #may #much #ought

Among peoples who are geographically grouped together like the peoples of Europe there must exist a sort of federal link. It is this link which I wish to endeavour to establish. ↗

— Aristide Briand

#endeavour #establish #europe #exist #federal

The divine law indeed has excluded women from this ministry, but they endeavour to thrust themselves into it; and since they can effect nothing of themselves, they do all through the agency of others. ↗

— John Chrysostom

#divine #effect #endeavour #excluded #indeed

Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful; if there is any real emotion to express, the expression will be moving. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#beautiful #beauty #emotion #endeavour #express